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Fall 2015

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering


Programs

MEng with Graduate Diplomas
 
Students in the Master of Engineering (MEng) program in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering may complete the requirements for a Graduate Diploma in conjunction with their MEng requirements.

Degree Requirements

Requirements for the MEng include the completion of eight graduate level courses as specified below for each diploma area: Design Engineering, Fire Safety, Green Energy.

All courses are 600 and 700 level courses and students are not allowed to take more than two 500 level courses (courses open to both undergraduates and graduates) out of their eight required courses.

Course Requirements for the MEng with Graduate Diplomas

Design Engineering

Graduate Diploma requirements for Design Engineering: 

Mandatory courses:
ME 680 Advanced Design Engineering
ME 681 Advanced Design Engineering - Design Project 1
ME 682 Advanced Design Engineering - Design Project 2

Specific courses: 1 from the following list
ME 538 Welding Design, Fabrication and Quality Control
ME 555 Computer-Aided Design
ME 559 Finite Element Methods
ME 561 Fluid Power Control Systems
ME 566 Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineering Design

General courses: 4 additional Faculty of Engineering graduate courses (subject to the approval of the department)

Fire Safety

Graduate Diploma requirements for Fire Safety:

Mandatory courses:
ME 671 Fundamental Fire Dynamics
ME 672 Advanced Fire Dynamics
ME 673 Fire Modeling

Specific courses: 5 from the following list
CIVE 601 Engineering Risk and Reliability
ME 720 Special Topics in Solid Mechanics: Fire Resistance
ME 760 Special Topics in Thermal Engineering: Industrial Fire and Explosion Safety
ME 765 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics: Advanced Concepts in Design for Fire Safety
ME 765 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics: Smoke Movement
ME 765 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics: Human Behaviour in Fires
ME 770 Special Topics in Numerical Methods, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer: Experimental Design, Measurement and Data Validation
ME 770 Special Topics in Numerical Methods, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer: Fire Testing

Green Energy

Graduate Diploma requirements for Green Energy:

Mandatory courses:
ME 659 Energy and Environment

Specific courses: 3 from the following list
ME 738 Special Topics in Materials: Hydrogen Storage Materials
ME 751 Fuel Cell Technology
ME 753 Solar Energy
ME 760 Special Topics in Thermal Engineering: Low Energy Building Systems
ME 760 Special Topics in Thermal Engineering: Building Energy Performance
ME 760 Special Topics in Thermal Engineering: Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
ME 765 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics: Wind Energy

General courses: 4 additional Faculty of Engineering graduate courses (subject to the approval of the department)

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